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I just love my occasional trips to the utility services offices. The local TOT office is no exception.

Today, TOT had present its usual 7 staff. The company certainly is strong on employee welfare because, as usual, two of the girls had reluctantly turned aside from the pc terminals to enjoy the morning's noodle break. I believe that it is one of several. Ever security conscious, two other young ladies were deployed in front of ...

Just for the old Brits, here's a pic of some Humber bicycles that I saw at Pak Thong Chai silk festival. Do you remember them from when you were kids. There's a tad more information on the blog:

http://www.grumpyexpat.com/blog/2009/12 ... bikes.html

The Rocking Song

Little Jesus, sweetly sleep, do not stir;
We will lend a coat of fur,
We will rock you, rock you, rock you,
We will rock you, rock you, rock you:

Fur is no longer appropriate wear for small infants, both due to risk of allergy to animal fur, and for ethical reasons. Therefore faux fur, a nice cellular blanket or perhaps micro-fleece material should be considered a suitable alternative.
Please note, only ...

What obscure collective nouns do you know, or can look up or make up? For example:

shrewdness of apes
congregation of birds
Company of angel fish
Conflagration of arsonists
Sneer of butlers
Ambush of widows
Gaggle of women
Wunch of bankers
Bevy of alcoholics
Exaggeration of fishermen
Jam of tarts
Revelation of flashers

Real or imaginary, what great bar names can you come up with.

A couple to start with:

The Knotted Balloon (thanks to Add)

The Tool Shed (gay bar)

Half Way Inn

The Pour House

Retox

The Murderers (a real pub in Norwich)

Cock and Bull (coaching inns in Stony Stratford that gave the tag to tall stories)

Piston Broke

Fanny On The Hill (now closed, apparently)

The Tilted Wig (Aberdeen)

You might have to think twice about this one.
A blonde hurried into the emergency room late one night with the tip
Of her index finger shot off. 'How did this happen?' the emergency
Room doctor asked her.
'Well, I was trying to commit suicide,' the blonde replied.
'What?' sputtered the doctor. 'You tried to commit suicide by shooting
Off your finger?'
'No, Silly' the blonde said. 'First I put the gun to my chest, ...

This for Bangkok Post on 4 November. Good job there's no Guy Fawkes Night in Thailand!


Floating lanterns in line of fire

* Published: 4/11/2009 at 12:00 AM

Stricter control of floating lanterns is needed in Bangkok during the Loy Krathong celebrations, City Hall's inspector-general Nikom Boonpitak says. At least one fire on Monday night was caused by a candle-lit lantern, the city's disaster prevention and mitigation department said yesterday. The use of floating lanterns, ...

wayne Rooney footballer has named his child KAI, obivously been living in Manchester to long :D , though its been reported he was holidaying in Koh samet with posh and becks, becks happened to say Kai tod rooney was reported to of said the waiteress had a nice name,(please read in cockney) vicky was heard saying no wayne thats the name of the barman hes got ...

My job is so unbelievable. I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the guys I work with:

First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on makeup. She is extremely self-centered and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box ...

An individual began, putting it mildly, to harass me in the early months of this year and eventually went beyond all reasonable bounds. What did I do wrong? I had joined in the very common gossip whenever stories about his behaviour percolated the local farang community. My expectation was that he would eventually exhaust his spite and do what I asked him to do several times, leave me alone. Several people have explained to him ...